[bedolido]

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The heaters in their little cars don't work very well anyway...

[Afronaut]

HOly Mackeral it's Summer again! This is news.

[Right Wing Professor]

It's going to be hot, 35C in the South

95 F? That's hot?

[Semper Paratus]

A jump in the Channel or the North Sea should cool the blokes off.

[Myrddin]

We've been in triple digits in Pocatello everyday since the end of June. Yesterday, August 3, was the first cool day in many weeks. We topped out at 77 degrees. My room air conditioner has been running constantly through all of July and produced no water at all. Yesterday, the cup filled to the max. I emptied it and it was 1/3 full after another 4 hours.

[gcruse]

This reminds me of a headline that one ran in the San Francisco Chronicle.

High temperature reaches 75 degrees.
No relief in sight.

[Wright is right!]

Cutting the speed limits for those train lines will definitely put a dent in travel. Most of those - if not all - are electrified and the trains simmer along at 125 mph. The jaunt from Liverpool St. Station to Norwich and back has made a splendid day trip for us to visit long-time friends of ours in the Somerleyton area when we're over there. With the trains running only 60 mph, the trip itself would consume most of the daytime.

Yes, temps like this are beastly to the English. Air conditioning is rarely needed in homes outside of large heat-islands such as big cities, and there are many older homes with no a/c. Indeed, there are a lot of homes in SPAIN with no a/c either, and temps in the 100's/mid 30's are commonplace. But the Spanish are used to it. The Brits certainly aren't.

Except for those Brits who've ex-patted to the Costa del Sol in Spain.

Michael

[jimt]

Not to lean on an old cliche, but it's not the heat, it's the humidity !

Hopefully the Brits won't have a steambath like we do in Houston. I left Houston one day when it was 85 degrees, and VERY uncomfortable. I landed in Phoenix where it was 104 degrees, and was comfortable enough for me to go for a walk !

Today's high in Houston is supposed to be 95 degrees, with a "heat index" of 108. To me it feels like 120.

Here's hoping the Brits high temps coincide with low humidity.